This year’s symposium is titled: “Queering Bioethics: Ethical Issues in LGBTQ Health Care.” The planning committee, led by Dr. Robert Streiffer, has attracted some of the best people in the country to provide discussion on the historic and current ethical issues around LGBTQ health care including: surrogacy and assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), health care for …
Post-apocalyptic films and books are more popular than ever, with recent titles like The Hunger Games, The Passage, Snowpiercer and The Walking Dead joining a rapidly growing list. What drives our fascination with the end of the world? Can this pop-culture phenomenon help us understand today’s environmental challenges and stimulate ideas to build a just, …
This seminar will consider some conceptual and empirical aspects of the time patients spend in contact with healthcare providers. Under different circumstances, non-contact with providers may or may not be desirable. For instance, some measures of healthcare quality are based on understanding how much patient time is dedicated to the receipt of healthcare, how much …
Mindy Habecker from UW Extension will share her experiences working with 65 farmers in rural southeastern Ghana near Ada. The two week project through Farmer to Farmer, US AID was to assist members of the Afiadenyigba tribe form a farmer’s cooperative. These farmers grow cassava, watermelon, tomatoes, okra, and raise a variety of livestock. The project …
This conference will be a lively interrogation of an uncommon theme in the scholarly study of Africa and the African diaspora: pleasure. The uncommonness is not surprising, given the constituent elements of the modern history of the African world in the last five centuries: slavery, colonialism, and the continuing challenges of postemancipation, civil rights and …
Organizations working in international development, particularly large national and multilateral institutions, are increasingly focused on generating and documenting knowledge about the issues at the center of their work. However, researchers with experience in the academy who are brought into these projects may find significant differences in the ways that problems and questions are framed, in …
Wisconsin Without Borders is hosting a joint learning meeting at the Morgridge Center for Public Service Round Room. The topic being discussed is “Global Privilege.” The learning community will be joined by Jane Collins, Joe Conti, and Gavin Luter to discuss both the location/operation of power within the global community and opportunities for resistance via engaged scholarship.
Our team will discuss our new findings on mercury concentrations and isotope ratios in food fish harvested in Gabon, Rep. Congo, Tanzania, and Kenya, and place these statistics in a global context. Concentrations are extraordinarily high in Central African rivers, moderate in Lake Victoria, and low in Lake Tanganyika. Health impacts are difficult to predict, but …
Global Health certificate earner among those awarded Wisconsin Idea Fellowships.
Background: Lead exposure can cause adverse health effects and is a known occupational hazard in the shipyard industry. On March 28, 2016, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) learned of three workers with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) >40 µg/dL. These workers had been retrofitting a 690-foot vessel …